Combined strap and waistband for pantaloons



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H. GOODMAN..

COMBINED STRAP AND WAISTBAND FOR-PANTALOONS.

Ptented July 14, 1885.

INVERTER N. PETERS Phokrllhagnphar. WIINIIXML D. C

Unire Srarns artnr 'rrica HENRI GOODMAN, OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINED STRAP AND WAISTBAND FOR PANTALOONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,962, dated July 14,1885.

Application filed April 23, 1834. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, HnNRr GOODMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at San Luis Obispo, in the county of San Luis Obispo and Stateof California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPantaloons, &c., of which the following is a specification.

rlhe Object of my invention is to provide a means whereby pantaloons,overalls, drawers, and other like garments are sustained and supportedabout the person without the aid of suspenders or shoulder-straps- Thisobject I accomplish by the means illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings,forining a part of this specification, andin which- Figure l isa front view of a pair of pantaloons having my improvement attachedthere- Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross sectiontaken through the pantaloons on a line with the waistband. Fig. 4 is across section of the loop, buckle, and its rollers.

Similar letters of reference are used to indicate like parts throughoutthe several views.

A and A are two similarly-constructed straps, one of which carries abuckle, C, the other being adapted to enter the buckle as a tongue.These straps are situated on Opposite parts of the waistband, are bothmade of a double thickness Of the fabric or material of which thegarment is composed, and are of sufficient length to double back uponthemselves. It is necessary, also, to make each of these straps somewhatwider throughout one half of its length than through the other half, inorder .that the wider half may be stitched to the waistband and form apocket, B, through which the other half ofthe strap can slip easilyafter it has passed around the loop D.

D is a'metal loop, which serves to admitthe narrower lengths of thestraps when they are being doubled back upon themselves, and which thusunites these doubled portions at the back of the garment. The long armsof the loop are provided with rollers or tubes E, which permit thedoubled straps to move in the loop with ease, which affords a greaterrelief to the wearer than when thestrap which surrounds the body isfixed and rigid.

In applying my invention to a garment the wider half of the strap A isfirst stitched to the waistband from the button-flap to a distance a fewinches beyond the side seam. Thus the pocket or way B is formed. Thenarrower length of the strap A is then passed through the metal loop D,and folded back through the mouth B Of the pocket B, and through thispocket until it emerges thence at the iiap. By a similar constructionthe pocket B and strap A on the opposite side of the waistband is made.Vhen it is desired to tighten the garment about the body,the onlyrequisite is to buckle together the ends of A and A at or near thebuttoxrap by suit-able means provided. .By drawing these two endstogether the folded parts of A and A will be tightened at the loop D,and the waistband will be secured tightly around the body by oncebuckling, all necessity for -any button upon the waistband beingdispensed with.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, anddesire to securebyv Letters Patent, isf- In pantaloons and like garments, theconibination, with the waistband, of the straps A A', buckle C, and loopD, a portion of each strap being doubled backward under 'another widerportion of itself, which is stitched to the waistband, and said strapsbeing passed through the loop at the back and secured by HENRI GOODMAN.[1.. s] Y Vitnesses:

WrLMER BRADFORD, Guns. vE. KELLY.

